Bottle



No. 607,345. Patented July I2, I898;

U. 0. CRANE.

, BOTTLE.

(Application filed Jan. 21, 1897. Renewed Dec. 15, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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NITED' STATES PATENT FFICE.

UZAL O. CRANE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HARRY O. CRANE, OF SAME PLACE, AND GEORGE W. JUDSON, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 607,345, dated July 12, 1898. Application filed January 21, 1897. Renewed December 15, 1897. Serial No. 662,067. (No model.)

To CLZZ ZUhOWI/ it may concern:

Be it known that I, UZAL O. CRANE, a citi zen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved bottle by which an ordinary cork stopper can be quickly and easily secured in the mouth of the bottle; and the invention has for its object the production of a simple and effective means for fastening stoppers in bottles which contain effervescent liquids. I

My invention consists of a bottle the head of which is provided with a shoulder having a series of scalloped sections and shallow grooves leading therefrom toward the mouth and disappearing a short distance from the scalloped sections.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the head of my improved Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the upper portion of a bottle, showing the cork secured according to my invention. Fig. 3 is a vertical central section on line 3 3 of Fig. 4, and Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

I A represents an ordinary glass bottle to which my invention is applied and has the usual neck a and head a. The shoulder formed at the junction of the head with the neck of the bottle. is divided into scallopshaped sections, the under sides of which are provided with. undercut recesses B, preferably four in number. Shallow grooves 11 lead from the recesses B part way up the side of the head toward the mouth of the bottle, but disappearing a short distance above said recesses B. An ordinary piece of twine or wire C is employed to secure'the ordinary cork or stopper D in the mouth of the bottle.

To secure the stopper, the middle portion of the twine is first passed over the top of the stopper and each half is brought down along one of the shallow grooveson opposite sides of the'head. Each half is then passed inopposite directions along one of the undercut recesses B and led up through the other grooves 12 to the top of the stopper,wher.e any preferred securing-knot may be tied.

The recesses and grooves are formed on the head of the bottle after the same is blown in the mold by reheating the same and then forming said undercut recesses and grooves by means of a special tool made for the'purpose.

My invention provides a simple, effective, and economical means for retaining the stoppers in bottles containing soda, sarsaparilla, or other effervescent or fermented liquids. The bottles may be used again and again, it being only necessary to renew the stoppers and strings.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patenti A bottle, provided with a shoulder formed at the juncture of the head with the neck and constructed with an undercut recess in said shoulder, and shallow tapering grooves leading from said undercut recess along the side of the head in upward direction toward the mouth of the said bottle, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

UZAL O. CRANE.

WVitnesses:

GEO. W. JAEKEL, O. E. GAST. 

